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How to update your homepage content

Your homepage is the first page most customers see. Everything written on it is edited in one place in your back office: the headline, the feature blurbs, your services and hours, any custom sections your website was designed with, and what search engines show for it.

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What the two tabs edit

The homepage editor has two tabs. Standard sections holds the blocks every Party Rental Studio website has: the hero, features, services and hours. Custom sections holds the text your own website's design adds, such as an about block or a service area. Your categories and featured rentals come from Products, not from this page.

Sunny Day Party Rentals' homepage, block by block. Its Photo gallery section is switched off, so it isn't on the page. Your website may have different custom sections, or none.

Before you start

  • These fields fill in the homepage of a website hosted by Party Rental Studio. A WordPress website running our plugin has its own homepage, which you edit in WordPress.
  • Any back-office login except a driver login can open Website.
  • Custom sections only exist on websites designed with them. If your website has none yet, Steps 06 and 07 show an empty tab, and PRS support can set them up.
Step 01

Open the homepage editor

Every page on your website is edited from the Pages list. The homepage is the one with the extra sections.

  1. Log in to your back office at io.partyrentalstudio.com and click Website in the top navigation. The Pages list opens.
  2. Find the first row, the one with the house icon. It carries your homepage's menu name, usually Home.
  3. Hover over the row and click Edit Page.
The homepage is always the first row, with the house icon. Edit Page appears when you hover over a row.

Note: The editor opens on the Standard sections tab. Steps 02 to 05 and Step 08 happen there, and Steps 06 and 07 on Custom sections.

Step 02

Rewrite the hero section

The hero is the banner at the top of your homepage: a headline and one line under it.

  1. Under Hero Section, type your headline in Website Title. Lead with what you rent and where, for example "Bounce House and Party Rentals in Orange County".
  2. Type the line under it in Website Description (Suggest: 10-15 words). One sentence is plenty.
On the homepage the hero has two fields. The page title in the bar at the top is your homepage's menu name.

Tip: Write the headline for a customer who has never heard of you. Your business name is already in your logo, so spend the headline on what you rent and the area you serve. Search engines read it too.

Step 03

Update the features section

Three short blocks below the hero. Use them for the reasons someone should book with you.

  1. Scroll to Features Section.
  2. Type a short heading in Features 1, then a sentence explaining it in Features 1 Short Description.
  3. Repeat for Features 2 and Features 3. Leave a heading empty and that feature is left off your website.
Each feature is a heading and a short description. Features 2 and 3 continue below in the same way.

Tip: Keep the headings to two or three words so the three blocks line up evenly. "Setup Included", "Sanitized Every Time" and "Fully Insured" work better than full sentences.

Step 04

Update the services list

A heading, a short description and a list of the kinds of events you serve, as long as you need it.

  1. Scroll to Services.
  2. Set the Service Title, for example "What We Do".
  3. Add a Service Description of 10 to 15 words.
  4. Type one service into each numbered row. Click Add More for another row, or the trash icon to remove one.
One service per row. Add More puts a new empty row at the bottom of the list.

Note: The services list is plain text, not your catalog. Your rental items come from Products and appear in your website's categories.

Step 05

Set your hours of operation

Two columns, one row per line you want shown. You choose the wording in both.

  1. Scroll to Hours of Operation.
  2. In Days, enter a day or a range, for example "Monday - Friday".
  3. In Time, enter the hours, for example "8:00 AM - 6:00 PM", or "Closed" for a day you are off.
  4. Click Add More for each extra row. The trash icon removes one.
Both columns are free text, so "Closed" works as well as a time.

Note: Below the hours sit Content and Additional Content, rich text blocks for longer copy. Whether and where they appear depends on your website's design, so check your homepage after saving. Add More Content adds a block, up to four.

Step 06

Open your custom sections

Custom sections are the parts of your homepage written for your business when your website was designed, such as an about block, a service area or a booking banner. Their text is yours to change.

  1. Click the Custom sections tab at the top of the editor. The number beside it is how many sections your website has.
  2. Pick a section in the Sections list on the left. Its fields open beside it.
  3. Read the tag on each section: Default means it still has its original wording, Edited counts the fields you have changed, and Hidden means you have switched the section off.
Sunny Day's four custom sections. About / SEO intro has one changed field, and Photo gallery is switched off.

Note: If the tab says No custom sections on this website yet, your website was designed before custom sections could be edited here. Everything on Standard sections still works, and PRS support can make the rest of your homepage editable.

Step 07

Edit text, lists and cards

Each field starts with your website's current wording. Change what you like and the design stays the same.

Text fields

  1. Click into a field and type. The counter on the right shows how much room the design has, for example 53 / 90.
  2. A changed field gets an Edited tag. Reset to default beside it puts the original wording back.
  3. Clear a field completely and click away, and the original wording comes back too.

Lists, cards and hidden sections

  • Lists, such as towns, have one row per item. Type in a row, add one with the button under the list, such as Add town, or remove one with the trash icon. Where the design allows it, the arrows move a row up or down.
  • Cards are numbered groups of fields, #1, #2 and so on. Some designs let you add and remove cards. Others have a fixed number, because each card sits beside its own photo or drawing.
  • Show on website, above some sections, leaves the whole section off your homepage while keeping its text saved.
Sunny Day's Service area section after changing the heading. The counter shows the heading has room for 37 more characters.

Heads up: Type past the limit and the counter turns red, with "Keep this under 90 characters so it fits the design." under the field. Saving is blocked until you shorten it, so your text never breaks the page.

Step 08

Set the search engine title and description

The Meta Tags (SEO) card sets the title and summary Google can show for your homepage.

  1. Click back to the Standard sections tab. The card sits in the right-hand column.
  2. Fill in Title Tag, for example "Bounce House Rentals in Orange County | Sunny Day Party Rentals".
  3. Write a one or two sentence Description. Keywords is optional.
Meta Tags (SEO) sits under Page Attributes, on the right of the Standard sections tab.

Heads up: Keep Status switched on in Page Attributes. With your homepage inactive, your website loses its homepage text and its menu.

Step 09

Save and check your website

The buttons sit at the top right of the editor and stay in view while you scroll. One save covers both tabs.

  • Save: saves and keeps you in the editor.
  • Save & Close: saves and takes you back to the Pages list.
  • Cancel: leaves the editor without saving anything you changed.
  1. Click Save or Save & Close. A Page updated successfully. message confirms it.
  2. Open your website in a new tab and refresh. Changes show within about a minute.
Save keeps you in the editor, and a green message confirms it. The editor reopens on Standard sections.

Don't paste formatted text from Word into Content or Additional Content. Hidden formatting comes across with it and can break your page layout. Paste into a plain text editor first, then copy from there.

Homepage editor questions

The things people ask after their first round of edits.

Why don't I see any custom sections?

Custom sections only exist on websites designed with them. If the tab says No custom sections on this website yet, your website was built before custom sections could be edited here. Your standard sections still work as usual, and PRS support can make the rest of your homepage text editable.

How do I put back the original wording?

Click Reset to default beside the field. You can also clear the field and click away. Either way the original wording from your website's design comes back. Save to make it live.

Why won't it let me save?

A custom section field is over its character limit. The editor switches to the Custom sections tab, puts you in the field that is too long and shows a message under it. Shorten the text until the counter is no longer red, then save. The limits are there so your text never breaks the design.

Can I add a new section or change their order?

Not from the back office. The sections, and the order they appear in on your homepage, come from your website's design, so contact PRS support to add one or move one. Inside a section you can reorder list rows, and cards where the design allows it, with the arrows beside them.

What happens to the text when I hide a section?

Nothing. Show on website only controls whether the section appears on your homepage. Its text stays saved, and switching it back on brings the section back exactly as you left it.

How soon do my changes show on my website?

Usually within a minute of saving. If you still see the old wording, refresh the page. Nothing changes on your website until you click Save or Save & Close.

Does this work for a WordPress website?

No. These fields fill in the homepage of a website hosted by Party Rental Studio. If your storefront runs inside WordPress with our plugin, you edit your homepage in WordPress.